Prevented from making his film, a director reinvents it elsewhere, with another actor. As Pacy and Joe slowly discover one another, cinema becomes an intimate gesture of love and poetic resistance.
Synopsis
A filmmaker sees the shooting of his film cancelled and begins looking for what remains of it, elsewhere, with another actor. What they explore together is no longer just a film, but a reflection on the stories that are silenced and the ones people take back for themselves.
Through their conversations, the boundary between cinema and life dissolves, and the film becomes a space of intimate resistance, where thinking, desiring, and speaking become one and the same gesture.
Creative specifications
A film written and directed by Gaël Kamilindi
With Ewan Kepoa Falé, Gaël Kamilindi
Cinematography Eva Sehet
Assistant Director Carla Hennequart
Script collaboration Lucas Gloppe
Music Gaspard Sommer
Editing Marie Thomas-Penette
Production José Michel Buhler, François-Xavier Destors
An Adok Films & Saule Productions production
in coproduction with RTS Radio Télévision Suisse
Pictanovo – With the support of région Hauts-de-France in partnership with CNC
With the support of Office Fédéral de la Culture (OFC)
With the participation of Cinéforom and the support of Loterie romande
Withe the support of Centre National du Cinéma et de L’Image Animée
With the participation of France Télévision : Department of Cinema, International Fiction and Young Adult Content – Short Film Unit
Audience Award at the Côté Court Festival Pitch 2024
Technical specifications
Year 2026
Lenght 20 minutes
Original version French
Aspect ratio color 4:3
Festivals
Berlinale 2026 – Teddy Award for Best Short Film
40th Cabourg Film Festival – Best Short Film Award
*Cartagena International Film Festival (FICCI), Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
*New Directors/New Films, New York, USA
*Lovers Film Festival, Turin, Italy
*23rd IndieLisboa – International Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal
*Festival de Cine Africano (FCAT), Tarifa, Spain
*Vienna Shorts, Vienna, Austria
*Leiden Shorts, Leiden, Netherlands
*XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin, Germany
*KASHISH Pride Film Festival, Mumbai, India
*42nd Hamburg Short Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany
*Palm Springs International ShortFest, Palm Springs, USA
*Frameline50 Film Festival, San Francisco, USA
*34th Raindance Film Festival, London, UK
*Kaze Film Festival, Kigali, Rwanda
*Cinema of Commoning, Berlin, Germany
*Namur International Francophone Film Festival, Belgium
*Bolton International Film Festival, UK
*Pink Screens Film Festival, Belgium
*Reykjavik International Film Festival, Iceland
*Amiens International Film Festival (FIFAM), France
*Kaohsiung Film Festival, Taiwan
